#cayce pollard

[nullconvention]

ROSEN is sort of my fantasy of getting wealthy - if I become well off you'll know because I'll dress like Gracia Ventus. In some ways, sort of an idol to me, the model as well as the maker. One of my favorite fictional characters of all time, Cayce Pollard, is shades of Ventus in her secretive future ventures at the end of Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy but Ventus doesn't really hide at all. You can't, really, as a model on Insta either, right?

But this is her Plato Suit, it's in wool cotton gauze as you can see here https://rosen-store.com/collections/rosen-suits-sets/products/rosen-plato-suit-in-wool-cotton-gauze .

If you have 600 dollars, it can be yours, which I think is very reasonable considering the work and the material. There is really nothing about this that can be called fast fashion. If you ever see me in this, that's how you'll know I must have made it despite everything lmao.

[cantsayidont]

The protagonist of William Gibson's 2003 novel PATTERN RECOGNITION, Cayce Pollard, is a "cool hunter" who makes her living as a brand consultant, telling companies whether their new brands or brand-building campaigns will be a hit or not. She's able to do this by essentially monetizing her own chronic illness: Cayce has a severe, potentially debilitating allergy to brand imagery, so severe that to avoid constantly getting sick, she can only wear a limited range of anonymous gray, white, or black clothing items (known as "CPUs," for "Cayce Pollard Units") from which all brand identification has been scrupulously removed; she has to pay someone to carefully sand the manufacturer logos off of the buttons of her jeans before she can wear them without nausea.

The more time passes, the more relatable this becomes.

[tylerhayward]

Finished Pattern Recognition and immediately tracked one down for myself

[thejaymo]

Michelin launches the ‘Michelin 3xplorer Club’, an exclusive NFT collection A 5,000-piece NFT collection, depicting the famous Michelin Man in 5,000 unique versions, and providing access to exclusive experiences with Michelin

Hope Cayce Pollard is doing ok.

[dreamy-conceit]

The future is already here—it's just unevenly distributed.

— William Gibson (see citation history)

[orchidblack]

Pattern Recognition cover art by gray318.

[punkysdilemma-blog]

“She checks her watch, a Korean clone of an old school Casio G-Shock, it’s plastic case sanded free of logos with. a scrap of Japanese micro-abrasive.” 

The description of Cayce Pollard’s watch from William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003). 

[koralatov]

She feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people’s objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self.

From the novel Pattern Recognition by William Gibson